US Likely To Ban Chinese App DeepSeek From Government Devices (msn.com)
(Friday March 07, 2025 @11:40AM (msmash)
from the escalating-matters dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/07/1616237/us-likely-to-ban-chinese-app-deepseek-from-government-devices
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/software/u-s-likely-to-ban-chinese-app-deepseek-from-government-devices/ar-AA1AsIfc
The White House is weighing measures to restrict Chinese artificial-intelligence upstart DeepSeek, including [1]banning its chatbot from government devices because of national-security concerns, WSJ reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report:
> U.S. officials are worried about DeepSeek's handling of user data, which the Chinese company says it stores in servers located in China, the people said. Officials also believe DeepSeek hasn't sufficiently explained how it uses the data it collects and who has access to the data, they said.
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> The Trump administration is likely to adopt a rule that would bar people from downloading DeepSeek's chatbot app onto U.S. government devices, the people said. Officials are also considering two other possible moves: banning the DeepSeek app from U.S. app stores and putting limits on how U.S.-based cloud service providers could offer DeepSeek's AI models to their customers, people close to the matter said. They cautioned that discussions about these two moves were still at an early stage.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/software/u-s-likely-to-ban-chinese-app-deepseek-from-government-devices/ar-AA1AsIfc
> U.S. officials are worried about DeepSeek's handling of user data, which the Chinese company says it stores in servers located in China, the people said. Officials also believe DeepSeek hasn't sufficiently explained how it uses the data it collects and who has access to the data, they said.
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> The Trump administration is likely to adopt a rule that would bar people from downloading DeepSeek's chatbot app onto U.S. government devices, the people said. Officials are also considering two other possible moves: banning the DeepSeek app from U.S. app stores and putting limits on how U.S.-based cloud service providers could offer DeepSeek's AI models to their customers, people close to the matter said. They cautioned that discussions about these two moves were still at an early stage.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/software/u-s-likely-to-ban-chinese-app-deepseek-from-government-devices/ar-AA1AsIfc
Does not matter (Score:2)
by Errol backfiring ( 1280012 )
In other news: US likely to ban the entire government.
Distinct from DeepSeek model... (Score:2)
This is a really good idea, as this applies to the DeepSeek app... that has been found to harvest as much as it can.
The DeepSeek model however (or general approaches) have already been integrated into a ton of other AI products now, so it's not like the government cannot leverage DeepSeek. Just not the app.